Anneliese Felsenstein

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Anneliese Felsenstein (born Anneliese Fritz January 23, 1918 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died January 25, 1981 in Vienna) was an Austrian writer. She was married several times and was also called Anneliese Spira and Anneliese Fritz-Eulau .

Life

Anneliese Fritz attended the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She married the director Walter Felsenstein , they had the son Wolfgang Felsenstein. After the annexation of Austria , she had to break off her studies as a Jew. In 1938 she fled to Switzerland with Walter Felsenstein, where she worked for the refugee aid organization Kulturgemeinschaft der Emigranten in Zurich and wrote for the exile magazine Über die Grenzen . In 1945 the newly founded Association of German Writers in Switzerland held its first poetry evening, and Jo Mihaly wrote an introduction to Anneliese Fritz's poems. After the end of the war, she returned to Austria in 1946 and worked as a music consultant at RAVAG . She wrote radio plays and directed the Russian Hour program .

From 1946 she was a member of the Communist Party of Austria , after the suppression of the Hungarian people's uprising in 1956, she resigned from the party and clearly distanced herself from the communists.

Felsenstein wrote poems, dramas and essays and translated opera libretti from French and Hungarian. The cycle of poems published in 1963 The horrors of war: A cycle of poems on etchings by Francisco de Goya was written between 1942 and 1944, the dedication was To the memory of my mother - dedicated to all mothers .

Fonts (selection)

  • Poems . Zurich: Sensenverlag, 1942
  • Anneliese Fritz: Contribution in: Singing on the way: Poems . Affoltern: Aehren, 1945
  • Anneliese Fritz-Eulau: Pablo the Indio . Youth piece. Berlin: Construction stage sales, 1954. Stage manuscript
  • Anneliese Fritz-Eulau: The Magic Flute: A youth novel about Mozart, his fairy tale opera and three Viennese children of today . Illustrations by Oskar Zimmermann. Vienna: Globus 1955
  • Ferenc Farkas : Szent János Kútja (1945/46) Lirikus kantáta = The Saint John fountain: based on poems by v. Jenő Dsida . German Nachichtg: Anneliese Eulau-Felsenstein. Budapest: Zeneműkiadó / Editio Musica, 1959
  • Daniel in the lions' den . Drama, premiered in Vienna in 1961
  • The horrors of war: a cycle of poems based on Francisco de Goya's etchings . Vienna: European publishing house 1963

literature

  • Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 122
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 292
  • Susanne Blumesberger: Felsenstein, Anneliese. In: Ilse Korotin (ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 805.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felsenstein, Anneliese. In: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 292. The entry on Walter Felsenstein in the Munzinger Archive , as of July 2016, knows nothing about such a marriage and a child.
  2. ↑ Werner Mittenzwei : Exile in Switzerland . 2nd Edition. Frankfurt am Main: Röderberg, 1981 ISBN 3-87682-484-2 , p. 375f.
personal data
SURNAME Felsenstein, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritz, Anneliese (maiden name); Spira, Anneliese; Fritz-Eulau, Anneliese
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1981
Place of death Vienna